Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

trilly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tril-ly
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a trill sound.

Example Sentences

"She was a sweet young thing with cheek dimples and a trilly laugh..."
"This bird has a number of calls, but the most common is a loud chuck (Example 3). Immature birds utter a trilly note (Example 4), which is a common marsh sound in mid-summer."
"He adores his bedtime baseball stories, even at his ripe old age. “It's called 'The Curse.' Wooooooooo!” Sol sings scarily in a trilly, ghostlike, gradually descending soprano."
"31 March 2011, Mallika Rao at RollingStone.com, American Idol Recap: Stuck In the Middle Paul McDonald, whose "Rocket Man" was wispy and unmemorable; Stefano Langone, still with the weird enunciations and trilly voice..."

Etymology

From trill + -y.

Inflected Forms

more trilly (comparative) most trilly (superlative)

Rhymes With

silly billy chile lily willie chili philly willy lilly cincinnati chili chilly hilly

Questions

What does trilly mean?: Having a trill sound.
Where does trilly come from?: From trill + -y.

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